] Cf. Aristotle on the +Megalopsychos+, _Eth. Nic._ 1123 b. 15.
+ei de de megalon heauton axioi axios on, kai malista ton megiston, peri
hen malista an eie. . . . megiston de tout' an theiemen ho tois theois
aponemomen.+ But these kings clearly transgressed the mean. For the
satirical comments of various public men in Athens see Ed. Meyer,
_Kleine Schriften_, 301 ff., 330.

[155:1] Lysander too had altars raised to him by some Asiatic cities.

[156:1] Dittenberger, _Inscr. Orientis Graeci_, 90; Wendland,
_Hellenistisch-roemische Kultur_, 1907, p. 74 f. and notes.

[157:1] Several of the phrases are interesting. The last gift of the
heavenly gods to this Theos is the old gift of Mana. In Hesiod it was
+Kartos te Bie te+, the two ministers who are never away from the King
Zeus. In Aeschylus it was Kratos and Bia who subdue Prometheus. In
Tyrtaeus it was +Nike kai Kartos+. In other inscriptions of the
Ptolemaic age it is +Soteria kai Nike+ or +Soteria kai Nike aionios+. In
the current Christian liturgies it is 'the Kingdom, the Power, and the
Glory'. _R. G. E._{3}, p. 135, n. The new conception, as always, is
rooted in the old. 'The Gods Saviours, Brethren', &c., are of course
Ptolemy Soter, Ptolemy Philadelphus, &c., and their Queens. The phrases
+eikon zosa tou Dios, hyios tou Heliou, egapemenos hypo tou Phtha+, are
characteristic of the religious language of this period. Cf. also Col.
i. 14, +eikon tou Theou tou aoratou+; 2 Cor. iv. 4; Ephes. i. 5, 6.

[158:1] Fr. 1118. Arnim. Cf. Antipater, fr. 33, 34, +to eupoietikon+ is
part of the definition of Deity.

[158:2] Plin., _Nat. Hist._ ii. 7, 18. Deus est mortali iuvare mortalem
et haec ad aeternam gloriam via. Cf. also the striking passages from
Cicero and others in Wendland, p. 85, n. 2.

[159:1] The Stoic philosopher, teaching at Rhodes, _c._ 100 B. C. A man
of immense knowledge and strong religious emotions, he moved the Stoa in
the direction of Oriental mysticism. See Schwartz's sketch in
_Characterkoepfe_{a}, pp. 89-98. Also Norden's _Commentary on Aeneid_ vi.

[160:1] Jacoby in Pauly-Wissowa's _Realencyclopaedie_, vi. 954. It was
called +Hiera Anagraphe+.

[161:1] Cf. Plotin. _Enn._ I, ii. 6 +all' he spoude ouk exo hamartias
einai, alla theon einai+.

[161:2] Acts xiv. 12. They called Barnabas Zeus and Paul Hermes, because
he was +ho hegoumenos tou logou+.--Paul also writes to the Galatians
(iv. 14): 'Ye received me _as a messenger of God, as Jesus Christ_